Visual Capitalist – “Depending on where you live, owning a home may seem like a far off dream or it could be fairly realistic. In New York City, for example, a person needs to be making at least six figures to buy a home, but in Cleveland you could do it with just over $45,000 a year. This visual, using data from Home Sweet Home, maps out the annual salary you’d need for home ownership in 50 different U.S. cities. Note: The map above refers to entire metro areas and uses Q1 2022 data on median home prices. The necessary salary was calculated by the source, looking at the base cost of principal, interest, property tax, and homeowner’s insurance…”
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Daily Archives: August 4, 2022
How Misinformation About COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy Took Root Early On and Why It Won’t Go Away
Pro Publica: “Before coronavirus vaccines were even released, a disinformation campaign used a moment of national and personal vulnerability to prey on those who were pregnant or who planned to become pregnant.But that was only the beginning. Misinformation seeped into every corner of social media, onto Facebook feeds and into Instagram images, pregnancy apps and… Continue Reading
National Lightning Detection Network
This is a fee based service I became aware of tonight after 4 individuals were critically injured [two have died] by lightening in Lafayette Park across from the White House. I was on a dog walk about a half hour prior and had a frighteningly close call with a nearby lightening strike. Please do not… Continue Reading
DuckDuckGo browser now blocks all third-party Microsoft trackers
Bleeping Computer: “DuckDuckGo announced today that they will now be blocking all third-party Microsoft tracking scripts in their privacy browser after failing to block them in the past. This change comes after the company faced massive blowback in May for not blocking some third-party Microsoft trackers in the DuckDuckGo browser due to a syndicated search content… Continue Reading
Brave vs. Tor: Which Browser Offers More Security and Privacy?
MakeUseOf: “There are dozens of web browsers out there, some more popular than others, but only a select few can actually be considered both safe and private. Brave and the Tor Browser are certainly among them, and though they are similar in some respects, they are two very different pieces of software. So, how exactly… Continue Reading
Visualized: The Top 25 U.S. Newspapers by Daily Circulation
Visual Capitalist: “Most people today—more than 8 in 10 Americans—get their news via digital devices, doing their reading on apps, listening to podcasts, or scrolling through social media feeds. It’s no surprise then that over the last year, only one U.S. newspaper of the top 25 most popular in the country saw positive growth in… Continue Reading
Educational publisher Pearson will sell textbooks as non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
UK Guardian: “Textbook publisher Pearson plans to profit from secondhand sales by turning its titles into non-fungible tokens (NFTs), its chief executive has said. Educational books are often sold more than once, since students sell study resources they no longer require. Publishers have not previously been able to make any money from secondhand sales, but… Continue Reading
How the US Gave Away a Breakthrough Battery Technology To China
NPR: ” When a group of engineers and researchers gathered in a warehouse in Mukilteo, Wash., 10 years ago, they knew they were onto something big. They scrounged up tables and chairs, cleared out space in the parking lot for experiments and got to work. They were building a battery — a vanadium redox flow… Continue Reading
How we’re improving search results when you use quotes
Google Blog: “…Now we’re making quoted searches better. The snippets we display for search results (meaning the text you see describing web content) will be formed around where a quoted word or phrase occurs in a web document. That means you can more easily identify where to find them after you click the link and… Continue Reading
More than half of data deficient species predicted to be threatened by extinction
Borgelt, J., Dorber, M., Høiberg, M.A. et al. More than half of data deficient species predicted to be threatened by extinction. Commun Biol 5, 679 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03638-9 “The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is essential for practical and theoretical efforts to protect biodiversity. However, species classified as “Data Deficient” (DD) regularly mislead practitioners due… Continue Reading
